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Vesak Day Dharma Vision

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Rosan Daido

Thank you for your participation in the Vesak Day (commemorating Buddha’s Birthday, Awakening, and Parinirvāna, Perfect Nirvana) celebration! This is a good occasion for us to reflect and relive the Buddha’s Way. He opened the great gate of amrita, ambrosia … Continue reading →

Posted in Asankhata (asamskrita: unmade) | Tagged amrita (ambrosia/immortality), Buddha, Buddhahood, Carl H. Busse (1872-1918), chan, Dharma Dhatu, dharma of dependent origination, dhyâna, Four Stages of Zen (Jhāna, happiness, karma, karma heir/relative/machine, live on joy, meditation, nirvana, Parinirvāna: Perfect Nirvana, Pure heart: pure land, tornado, Vesak Day, Vimalakirti, Zazen (sitting zen) | Leave a comment

Awakened One’s Awakening Day

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! Today, the eighth of December, is the day of the Buddha’s awakening. So, all over the world Zen practitioners, after seven day intensive sitting, celebrate his awakening – an unprecedented feast that solves all problems of all … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakened Way (Buddhism) | Tagged and equanimity (upekhâ : lit. throwing away), awakening, beyond pleasure and pain/penance, Brahma's beseech, Brahmavihâra of friendship, Buddha, chan, compassion, defilements (klesha: zenma, dissatisfaction, everyday a good day (日日是好日：hibi-kore-koujitu), five coverings, four fluxes/leaks (âsava: 煩悩), global problematique, holy harmony/health/happiness, joy, lit. wrong going), meditation, meeting four people, nirvana, outing from four gates, shûnya (empty, six teachers/dogmatists/heretics (六師外道), substanceless), suffering, suffering (dukkha, Zen, Zen (jhâna, 染汚) | Leave a comment

Triple Pillars

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Rosan Daido

Good morning! We have now a short respite from the long spell of dry hot weather. It became cool at night and early in the morning. Especially when we sit in zazen, we can enjoy rest and renewal of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged aging, and anger), and awakened community), and carnage in and among city states and living beings and the life system), and extermination in civilization: class, and happiness, and mental actions/functions), and prognosis, and sangha (awakened, and unparalleled prognosis), and voluntary simplicity, anuttara samyak sambodhi (unsurpassed right awakening), Ârya), awakened truth, beauty, chan, complete paradigm shift from civilization (strife for and slavery in matter and power) to culture (striving for and sharing mind and life) in cultivation in holy (ariya, concentration, conflict, craving, death; social: parting with beloved ones, Dharma, dhyâna, equal partnership between men and women), etc.), exploitation, global ethic, global ethic (no killing/stealing/lying, goodness, hagia: wholly wholesome) truth, harmony, living beings: karma-machines, meeting with hateful ones; inability to attain desired things and avoid detested things; and ecological: disasters, nirvana (unconditioned peace), safe, saving all (5Ss), sickness, simple life, sustainable, system/paradigm shift from civilization (craving for matter/comfort and convenience/power) to culture (cultivation for holy truth/goodness/beauty/harmony/happiness), The Buddha saw the triple sufferings (individual: birth, triple karmas (physical, triple learning of morality, triple learning of morality (sîla)/concentration (samâdhi)/prognosis (prajñâ), triple pillars for systemic, triple pillars of the awakened way, triple poisons (delusion, triple tragedies (discrimination, triple transcendence (unsurpassed awakening, triple treasures of buddha, unconditioned peace, verbal, zazen, Zazen is the practical way to achieve the triple treasures and the triple pillars, zen (from jhâna | Leave a comment

Unconditioned Peace – Unsurpassed Awakening

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Rosan Daido

Good evening! We had a beautiful, bright sunny day today, with plants budding, burgeoning, and sprouting. I saw a pretty white star magnolia blooming in full size on a branch I had taken in during the chilly weather and put … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged awakened way, Buddha, chan, flower, insight, jhana, karma, meditation, nirvana, practice, prajna, principle, prognosis, shunya, sitting, unconditioned peace, universe, unsurpassed awakening bodhi, Zen, zero | Leave a comment

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